Students at an Atlanta high school named after a white supremacist have chosen a new name for their school, causing a renaming committee to drop its previous recommendation.
With a 61.4% vote, students at Henry W. Grady High School chose Midtown High School as their new school name, news outlets reported.
The choice of Ida B. Wells High School received 19.8% of the vote and the third choice of Piedmont High School received 18.8%. District officials said about 46% of the student body, 687 students, voted.
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